Chapter 36

BeÏlu¶ga (?), n. [Russ. bieluga a sort of large sturgeon, prop. white fish, fr. bieluii white.] (Zo”l.) A ??tacean allied to the dolphins. µ The northern beluga (Delphinapterus catodon) is the white whale and white fish of the whalers. It grows to be from twelve to eighteen feet long. BeÏlute¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Beluted; p. pr. & vb. n. Beluting.] [Pref. beÏ + L. lutum mud.] To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne. Bel·veÏdere¶ (?), n. [ It., fr. bello, bel, beautiful + vedere to see.] (Arch.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect. ØBel¶zeÏbuth (?), n. [From Beelzebub.] (Zo”l.) A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil. ØBe¶ma (?), n. [Gr. ? step, platform.] 1. (Gr. Antiq.) A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly. Mitford. 2. (Arch.) (a) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel. (b) Erroneously: A pulpit. BeÏmad¶ (?), v. t. To make mad. [Obs.] Fuller. BeÏman¶gle (?), v. t. To mangle; to tear ?sunder. [R.] Beaumont. BeÏmask¶ (?), v. t. To mask; to conceal. BeÏmas¶ter (?), v. t. To master thoroughly. BeÏmaul¶ (?), v. t. To maul or beat severely; to bruise. ½In order to bemaul Yorick.¸ Sterne. BeÏmaze (?), v. t. [OE. bimasen; pref. beÏ + masen to maze.] To bewilder. Intellects bemazed in endless doubt. Cowper. BeÏmean¶ (?), v. t. To make mean; to lower. C. Reade. BeÏmeet¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Bemet (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bemeeting.] To meet. [Obs.] Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak. BeÏmete¶ (?), v. t. To mete. [Obs.] Shak. BeÏmin¶gle (?), v. t. To mingle; to mix. BeÏmire¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Bemired (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bemiring.] To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke. BeÏmist¶ (?), v. t. To envelop in mist. [Obs.] BeÏmoan¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Bemoaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bemoaning.] [OE. bimenen, AS. bem?nan; pref. beÏ + m?nan to moan. See Moan.] To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with. Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans. Dryden. Syn. Ð See Deplore. BeÏmoan¶er (?), n. One who bemoans. BeÏmock¶ (?), v. t. To mock; to ridicule. Bemock the modest moon. Shak. BeÏmoil¶ (?), v. t. [Pref. beÏ + moil, fr. F. mouiller to wet; but cf. also OE. bimolen to soil, fr. AS. m¾l spot: cf. E. mole.] To soil or encumber with mire and dirt. [Obs.] Shak. Be¶mol (?), n. [F. b‚mol, fr. b‚ ? + mol soft.] (Mus.) The sign ?; the same as B flat. [Obs.] BeÏmon¶ster (?), v. t. To make monstrous or like a monster. [Obs.] Shak. BeÏmourn¶ (?), v. t. To mourn over. Wyclif. BeÏmud¶dle (?), v. t. To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse. BeÏmuf¶fle (?), v. t. To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne. BeÏmuse¶ (?), v. t. To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope. Ben (?), Ben¶ nut· (?). [Ar. b¾n, name of the tree.] (Bot.) The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa. Ben, adv. & prep. [AS. binnan; pref. beÏ by + innan within, in in.] Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scot.] Ben, n. [See Ben, adv.] The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; Ð opposed to but, the outer apartment. [Scot.] Ben. An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be. [Obs.] BeÏname¶ (?), v. t. [p. p. Benamed, Benempt.] To promise; to name. [Obs.] Bench (?), n.; pl. Benches (?). [OE. bench, benk, AS. benc; akin to Sw. b„nk, Dan b‘nk, Icel. bekkr, OS., D., & G. bank. Cf. Bank, Beach.] 1. A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplie? ?ne place of chairs. Sir W. Scott. 2. A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench. 3. The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. Shak. 4. The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench. 5. A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; Ð so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms. 6. A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river. Bench mark (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show where leveling staffs were placed. Ð Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates assembled in council. Ð Bench plane, any plane used by carpenters and joiners for working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes. Ð Bench show, an exhibition of dogs. Ð Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat. Bench (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Benched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Benching.] 1. To furnish with benches. 'T was benched with turf. Dryden. Stately theaters benched crescentwise. Tennyson. 2. To place on a bench or seat of honor. Whom I ... have benched and reared to worship. Shak. Bench, v. i. To sit on a seat of justice. [R.] Shak. Bench¶er (??), n. 1. (Eng. Law) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court. 2. An alderman of a corporation. [Eng.] Ashmole. 3. A member of a court or council. [Obs.] Shak. 4. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. [Obs.] Bench¶ war·rant (?). (Law) A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; Ð so called in distinction from a justice's warrant. Bend (?), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Bended or Bent (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bending.] [AS. bendan to bend, fr. bend a band, bond, fr. bindan to bind. See Bind, v. t., and cf. 3d & 4th Bend.] 1. To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee. 2. To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline. ½Bend thine ear to supplication.¸ Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes ... upon her parent. Sir W. Scott. 3. To apply closely or with interest; to direct. To bend his mind to any public business. Temple. But when to mischief mortals bend their will. Pope. 4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. ½Except she bend her humor.¸ Shak. 5. (Naut.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden. Syn. Ð To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield. Bend, v. i. 1. To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow. The green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend. Milton. 2. To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak. 3. To be inclined; to be directed. To whom our vows and wished bend. Milton. 4. To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge. Bend, n. [See Bend, v. t., and cf. Bent, n.] 1. A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road. 2. Turn; purpose; inclination; ends. [Obs.] Farewell, poor swain; thou art not for my bend. Fletcher. 3. (Naut.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post. Totten. 4. (Leather Trade) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt. 5. (Mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind. Bends of a ship, the thickest and strongest planks in her sides, more generally called wales. They have the beams, knees, and foothooks bolted to them. Also, the frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides; as, the midship bend. Bend, n. [AS. bend. See Band, and cf. the preceding noun.] 1. A band. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. [OF. bende, bande, F. bande. See Band.] (Her.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base. Bend¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of being bent. Bend¶er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, bends. 2. An instrument used for bending. 3. A drunken spree. [Low, U. S.] Bartlett. 4. A sixpence. [Slang, Eng.] Bend¶ing, n. The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bend¶let (?), n. [Bend + Ïlet: cf. E. bandlet.] (Her.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend. Bend¶wise (?), adv. (Her.) Diagonally. Ben¶dy (?), a. [From Bend a band.] (Her.) Divided into an even number of bends; Ð said of a shield or its charge. Cussans. Ben¶e (?), n. (Bot.) See Benne. Be¶ne (?), n. [AS. b?n.] A prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene ? Wordsworth. ØBene, Ben (?), n. [Native name.] (Zo”l.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis). BeÏneaped¶ (?), a. (Naut.) See Neaped. BeÏneath¶ (?), prep. [OE. benethe, bineo?en, AS. beneo?an, beny?an; pref. beÏ + neo?an, ny?an, downward, beneath, akin to E. nether. See Nether.] 1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. ½Beneath the mount.¸ Ex. xxxii. 19. Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope. 2. Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens. Our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak. 3. Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming. He will do nothing that is beneath his high station. Atterbury. BeÏneath¶ (?), adv. 1. In a lower place; underneath. The earth you take from beneath will be barren. Mortimer. 2. Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath. ØBen·eÏdic¶iÏte (?), n. [L., (imperative pl.,) bless ye, praise ye.] A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel. ØBen·eÏdic¶iÏte, interj. [See Benedicite, n.] An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !. Ben¶eÏdict (?), Ben¶eÏdick (?), } n. [From Benedick, one of the characters in Shakespeare's play of ½Much Ado about Nothing.¸] A married man, or a man newly married. Ben¶eÏdict, a. [L. benedictus, p. p. of benedicere to bless. See Benison, and cf. Bennet.] Having mild and salubrious qualities. [Obs.] Bacon. Ben·eÏdic¶tine (?), a. Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet. Ben·eÏdic¶tine, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846. µ The Benedictines wear black clothing, and are sometimes called Black Monks. The name Black Fr????rs which belongs to the Dominicans, is also sometimes applied to the Benedictines. Ben·eÏdic¶tion (?), n. [L. benedictio: cf. F. b‚n‚diction. See Benison.] 1. The act of blessing. 2. A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically: The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction. 3. (Eccl.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop. Ayliffe. 4. (R. C. Ch.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God. Ben·eÏdic¶tionÏal (?), n. A book of benedictions. Ben·eÏdic¶tionÏaÏry (?), n. A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle. Ben·eÏdic¶tive (?), a. Tending to bless. Gauden. Ben·eÏdic¶toÏry (?), a. Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray. ØBen·eÏdic¶tus (?), n. [L., blessed. See Benedict, a.] The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); Ð so named from the first word of the Latin version. Ben¶eÏdight (?), a. Blessed. [R.] Longfellow. Ben·eÏfac¶tion (?), n. [L. benefactio, fr. benefacere to do good to one; bene well + facere to do. See Benefit.] 1. The act of conferring a benefit. Johnson. 2. A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation. Syn. Ð Gift; present; gratuity; boon; alms. Ben·eÏfac¶tor (?), n. [L.] One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon. Ben·eÏfac¶tress, n. A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper. BeÏnef¶ic (?), a. [L. beneficus. See Benefice.] Favorable; beneficent. Milton. Ben¶eÏfice (?), n. [F. b‚n‚fice, L. beneficium, a kindness , in LL. a grant of an estate, fr. L. beneficus beneficent; bene well + facere to do. See Benefit.] 1. A favor or benefit. [Obs.] Baxter. 2. (Feudal Law) An estate in lands; a fief. µ Such an estate was granted at first for life only, and held on the mere good pleasure of the donor; but afterward, becoming hereditary, it received the appellation of fief, and the term benefice became appropriated to church livings. 3. An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson. µ All church preferments are called benefices, except bishoprics, which are called dignities. But, ordinarily, the term dignity is applied to bishoprics, deaneries, archdeaconries, and prebendaryships; benefice to parsonages, vicarages, and donatives. Ben¶eÏfice, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Beneficed.] To endow with a benefice. [Commonly in the past participle.] Ben¶eÏficed (?), a. Possessed of a benefice o? church preferment. ½Beneficed clergymen.¸ Burke. Ben¶eÏficeÏless (?), a. Having no benefice. ½Beneficeless precisians.¸ Sheldon. BeÏnef¶iÏcence (?), n. [L. beneficentia, fr. beneficus: cf. F. b‚n‚ficence. See Benefice.] The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Syn. Ð See Benevolence. BeÏnef·iÏcent (?), a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. Ð See Benevolent. BeÏnef·iÏcen¶tial (?), a. Relating to beneficence.

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